Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-26
GEORGE CLARK.
Remarks 20 q New Braunfels Delegation
and Other True Blues.


suffering WITH Illness and hardly able to
speak st all: but cannot forego at least
an honest effort to sey g few words in
response to those so kindly said by your
spokesman, Colonel Lambert.
The contest through Whica we have re- !
Gently passed involved results OF more
gravity 10 Texas than any other issue ever
presented to her people. Appealing TO
{. sentiment with which alI humanity is in
sympathy, the promotion Of temperance
and sooriety, the enemies of free demo-
cratic government sought by this method,
and, under THIS spSciouS and dalusive cry,
to ho0dwink our people into change Of
their government. The fight never meant
SO much the extinction OF whisky as he
creation and upbui!dipg OF q new party, o
new theory Of government in Texas, under
the operations Of which it should become
the duty as well as the pleasure of some
Texans to poke their noses daily into
other peoples dff.irs, src, while Wor-
| ship = { - 3Tc ->5ltIe1Ig their moral
Ives according to the dictates of their
/ own conSciences, to carefully see to il
that nobody else should enjoy the same
blessed privilege. Some OF cur
preaching friends seem to act
as il they had reached the conclusion that
Gods plan Of salvation, individual free
dom coupled with direct individual re-
spon7iDility, was I'll wrong, and that it
wou!u re grand step forward If we
would -,lY step bacBWaI ABOUT three
centuries and again place upon our necks
the yoke of a paterI&i state gUyGI--Ie-.E,
dominated by clerical Influences. Some
Ipe0ple actually said this was true Democ-
racy, and invoked the spirit OF Jefferson
in vindication of their purposes!
Poor whisky was saddled with every
Ibody's sins, End all our woes personal
land political, were traced directly to its
door. Fortunately it was q 1uid end
when held up to the public gaze the peo-
pie saw through the transparent film Of
deception and beheld behind it g swarm
CT evils lar greater than any produced by
whisky; aud they wisely chose the better
part CT preserving their institutions of
government III simplicity, leaving intern
persnce to be fought and conquered by
moral agencies outside OF the govern
ment.
Your Spokesman he's been pleased 70
Gllude TO my services in The campaign IS
contributing in large measure TO the
glorious success we have won. In this
you must permit me to disagree with his
GA pIEsSIOus lAC VlCLUiJ - QuS ~ 10
man or body OF men. 1t is true we all
gave cur best lsbors 10 the campaign,
and 10 chief in political warfare
ever had more faithful associates
than | had in this campaign. But
the victory is Cue to the people them
selves, who are slWsys true end loyal to
the principles Of free government when
those principles ere asssiled. Our or
ganizttion, state, district, county and
precinct, did CREST work in bringing III
rectIy home 10 TIE people the moment
Gus nature Of the issue before them; but
the people were the fnsl actors and TO
them should De accorded al praise for
the victory, the benehcent effects OF
which will be felt beyond this generation.
word or two more, my friends, and
I an done. 1t any man thinks this pro-
hibiti0n craze is over, lot him undeCeive
himself, and that speedily. There ia 8
peculiarly ebout this malady, which per-
tains TO few other diseases, mental or
physical, Whenever il fasteNs lis fangs
+ good upon its victim, ne rarely returns to
6 condition Of perfect sanity. For the
, ordinary purposes Of life his usefulness
: may be generally restored by proper
! treatment and careful nursing; but the
: restless expression OF the eye
remains, oetokening that the
disease is only dormant and will
= break out into violent Convulsions upon
the slightest provocation. Every devout
, Prohibitionist imagines that he has e
, mission, and whenever you find fellow
: who thinks he has 8 mission, you find
: disturbing agitator who believes soci-
, ETY. is doomed to eternal damnation W.
less it goes his way. That he is honest
in his belief only makes him the more
dangerous, for in the madness OF his
, delirium ne regards nothing rs sacred
T which may obstruct his purposes. Wher
, foiled in one direction, he Immediately
: begins to devise other methods by which
,, to carry cut his morbid designs, anC
works INCREASINGLY while sane people are
: asleep and unmindiul of his folly. Sc
it is with these extreme ProhibitiOnists
, those fellows that say: "n the Demo
cratic party is to be whisky
> party, then I ain no longer 6 Dem
> ocrat;" or "prohibition is here &c stay
=. or "we will vote for prohibition till We
: die" and al such expressions. Many
of our Democratic friends only had the
disease in varioloid form and are
already restored to good Democratic
- health; but recent developments warn Us
llSt we nave 10 mEdu anu lnSlSnluian
:, enemy lying in ambush along our path
, wey and ready to spring upon US st any
. unguarded moment. These extreme pro
hibitioniets mean to defy the sovereign
will of the people of Texas as recently ex
pressed at the bellot box and upon theil
q own invocation. They propose to change
u their tactics from direct assault
!. to series CT gradual approaches By sap
i ping and mining, hoping thus 10 react
the citadel. They say now that the cleo
ton decided only the question Of constl-
tutional prohibition. What does tia
G mean: Evidently that there are diferen
: varieties Of the article, and il they Cal
e not get one kind by direct means they
p will attempt to get another kline
By indirect means. Their NANTES
3 purpose is to march into the Dem
ocratic camp under the guise O
d non partisan banners and capture GU
organization, snd then by statutory en-
n actment accomplish all that they me-
= hoped for by constitutional amendment
Our primaries are 10 be assailed by pro
hibition bands aud cohorts, organized
/ within the party; snd so strong has thi
20 idea seized upon them that even Re
= publican prohioitionist has advised this
| ~, 60Nt ho continued IN rfi q